Robertus cantabricus Fage, 1931
Description
Male
Unknown.
Female
Epigyne: chitinised plate nearly 1.5 times as long as wide, atrium near the anterior margin, widely apart from the epigastric furrow. Colouration as in R. mazaurici. Eyes entirely depigmented, whitish, AME one diameter apart, and 1.5 diameters from ALE, ALE twice as large as AME, posterior eyes equal in size, equidistant, nearly 2 diameters apart.
Body length female: 4 mmAdditional information
Only one female known. In cave.
Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Figures
Vulva, dorsal view
(Fage 1931)
Distribution List
"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.
References
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 
Fage L (1931) Araneae, 5e série, précédée d'un essai sur l'évolution souterraine et son déterminisme. In Biospeologica, LV. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 71: 99-291
Le Peru B (2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522
Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13
WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
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